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Christmas cards by architects and designers for 2020 include uplifting and apocalyptic messages

A skateboarding Santa Claus, a festive snow globe and MVRDV's mirrored art depot in Rotterdam feature in our selection of the best Christmas cards sent by architects, designers and brands this year.

Alongside these joyous cards was a more apocalyptic take on Christmas from British architect Piers Taylor tiled The Raft of Plague Island (below).

The image, a hack of Théodore Géricault's iconic painting The Raft of the Medusa, features British prime minister Boris Johnson and his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings among shipwrecked sailors on a storm-tossed raft bearing a Union Jack sail.

"As the rest of the world look on agog, we sit here trapped on Plague Island," wrote Taylor, reflecting on the rising coronavirus cases in the UK and potential of a no-deal Brexit.

"The only real surprise is that most British people seem to be saying 'two sugars please', Instagramming pictures of their Christmas tree and sending out cards of cosy winter scenes, not seeming to give two hoots that the UK is fatally holed, adrift, and alone."

"There is indeed no future in England's dreaming, and there never was. We're f*cked. Happy Christmas!" he continued.

Read on for this year's best cards for architects and designers:


Piers Taylor


Holloway Studio


SODA


COBE


Stanton Williams


Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios


Emil Eve


Nanimarquina


MVRDV


Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects


Urban Agency


Design Museum


Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt


Michaelis Boyd


Martin Mostböck


Archer + Braun middle


Annabelle Tugby Architects


Alma-nac


Kjellander Sjöberg Arkitektkontor


Mecanoo


Koos Staal


Ström Architects


Estudio Campana


Alison Brooks


Emrys Architects


Threefold Architects


KMK Promes


William Tozer Associates


Wiercinski Studio


White Arkitekter


Cristina Celestino


Pardini Hall Architecture


Benthem Crowel Architects


Sevil Peach


Made By Choice


Molteni&C


Mobile Studio and Studio C102


Lippmann


Serie Architects


Ryosuke Fukusada


Pablo Girones


EMBT


Merrett Houmøller Architects


Memphis Milano


McBride Charles Ryan


Marcel Wanders


Daniel Schofield


2260mm


Susanna Cots & The Eleven House


Hausman

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